Online maps and minorities: Geotagging Thailand’s Muslims

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Wall ◽  
Treepon Kirdnark
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Western Country ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Participatory Media ◽  
Online Maps ◽  
Opening Up

This article examines whether participatory media such as Flickr, with its seemingly unfettered tools for mapping citizen-created photographs, offers a means for a more comprehensive representation of minorities in a non-Western country. Assessment of geotags – markers designating longitude and latitude on an online map – associated with photographs of Thailand’s Muslims suggests that by replicating common stereotypes, user-generated content may be limiting rather than opening up discourses about minorities and that citizen participation via new media tools is more constrained and less free than commonly believed.

scholarly journals Digital Civic Participation and Misinformation during the 2020 Taiwanese Presidential Election

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-157
Author(s):  
Ho-Chun Herbert Chang ◽  
Samar Haider ◽  
Emilio Ferrara
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
The Political ◽  
Online Engagement ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
Critical Case Study ◽  
Emergent Coordination

From fact-checking chatbots to community-maintained misinformation databases, Taiwan has emerged as a critical case-study for citizen participation in politics online. Due to Taiwan’s geopolitical history with China, the recent 2020 Taiwanese Presidential Election brought fierce levels of online engagement led by citizens from both sides of the strait. In this article, we study misinformation and digital participation on three platforms, namely Line, Twitter, and Taiwan’s Professional Technology Temple (PTT, Taiwan’s equivalent of Reddit). Each of these platforms presents a different facet of the elections. Results reveal that the greatest level of disagreement occurs in discussion about incumbent president Tsai. Chinese users demonstrate emergent coordination and selective discussion around topics like China, Hong Kong, and President Tsai, whereas topics like Covid-19 are avoided. We discover an imbalance of the political presence of Tsai on Twitter, which suggests partisan practices in disinformation regulation. The cases of Taiwan and China point toward a growing trend where regular citizens, enabled by new media, can both exacerbate and hinder the flow of misinformation. The study highlights an overlooked aspect of misinformation studies, beyond the veracity of information itself, that is the clash of ideologies, practices, and cultural history that matter to democratic ideals.

No Money, No Representation: A Case Study of Zeguo Town in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Ye
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Fiscal Reform ◽  
Township Government ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Local Leaders

Authoritarian regimes rely on fiscal resources to build patronage networks. And so it is with China. Budget making is usually dominated by government leaders. However, some local governments in recent years have invited ordinary people to review budgets and even to determine parts of budgets. Why would local leaders make themselves accountable to their constituencies in an authoritarian setting? Why would local governments in China tie their own hands? Using detailed description of a township government, this article argues that fiscal affluence based on land is an important factor for local governments in launching fiscal reform. Richer areas have become more fiscally accountable by opening up new discussion and encouraging citizen participation.

scholarly journals Young Canadians’ Apprenticeship Labour in User-Generated Content

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
New Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Type Model ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
Conditions De Travail ◽  
Political Economic

This article introduces a political-economic framework for analyzing young people’s production of user-generated content (UGC) as a kind of apprenticeship labour. Based on case studies of four young Montréalers engaged in creating user-generated content, the author developed the apprenticeship-type model of UGC labour to denote a process by which online immaterial labour or “free labour” coincides with self-directed and informal job training, channelled specifically toward a career in the creative industries. The 20- to 24-year-old participants’ online activity is seen as a non-remunerated training ground, driven by the promise of notoriety that begets autonomous future employment in areas such as fashion, music, and journalism. Throughout this process, young people must constantly negotiate their autonomy; negotiated autonomy is precisely what they are apprenticing into through UGC production, where uncertainty and flexibility serve as the hallmarks of new media working conditions.Cet article propose une approche politico-économique afin d’analyser les contenus web générés par les utilisateurs (mieux connus sous l’acronyme anglais UGC : usergenerated content) en tant que travail d’apprentissage. Suivant une étude menée auprès de jeunes montréalais actifs dans la création d’UGC, l’auteure a développé l’idée de « travail d’apprentissage » en tant que procédé au sein duquel le travail immatériel (ou « travail non rémunéré ») sert la formation informelle et autonome d’une main d’oeuvre vouée plus spécifiquement aux carrières afférentes aux industries culturelles. Ainsi, les activités web des jeunes dans la vingtaine ayant participé à l’étude sont conçues en tant que travail bénévole motivé par la promesse de notoriété qui conduirait, de manière autonome, à leur futur employabilité dans les domaines de la mode, de la musique ou du journalisme. Tout au long de ce processus d’apprentissage, ces jeunes deviennent les agents de négociations constantes à propos de leur autonomie ; pour ces jeunes, l’autonomie négociée constitue précisément ce vers quoi culmine leur apprentissage, alors que l’incertitude et la flexibilité deviennent les marques distinctives des conditions de travail dans le domaine des nouveaux médias.

scholarly journals Unlearning to Be the Teacher: Findings From an Action Research Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Gail Casey
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
New Media ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Participatory Media ◽  
Action Research Study ◽  
Student Relationship

As the practitioner-researcher, the author integrated social and participatory media into her classes. Action research was used to explore how such media might enhance learning. The study found that the unique qualities of new media could be used to develop an active environment; students learned a lot from each other. Many complexities and tensions emerged and a shift in the teacher-to-student relationship occurred resulting in the need for the author to unlearn many past teaching practices.

scholarly journals The genre repertoires of Norwegian beauty and lifestyle influencers on YouTube

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-184
Author(s):  
Aleksander Torjesen
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Genre Theory ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
New Rhetoric ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
Production Practices

Abstract YouTube represents an increasingly popular cultural phenomenon in the contemporary Norwegian media landscape. Since the inception of the digital video platform over 15 years ago, personal videoblogging has emerged as one of its dominant types of user-generated content. In this article, I draw from New Rhetoric genre theory and netnographic approaches to explore the beauty and lifestyle sphere on YouTube, in which several emergent genres are situated within a new media ecosystem. Through a qualitative content analysis of seven established Norwegian YouTube channels, a total of 17 individual genres were identified. Furthermore, I elaborate upon how informational, instructional, and confessional communicative functions are utilised in audiovisual publications through conventionalised digital media production practices.

scholarly journals Sustainable E-Participation through participatory experiences in education

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Maier-Rabler ◽  
Stefan Huber
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Online Tool ◽  
Affinity Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Further Development

The understanding of participation as a political matter has changed back and forth over the years. The latest twist back to appreciative attributions towards participation is fuelled by the development of the Internet, and especially the Social Web. Citizen participation is unanimously seen as an essential precondition for Deliberative-Collaborative eDemocracy (Petrik, 2010) enabled by Web 2.0. This paper considers participatory culture and its specific political, cultural, societal, and educational characteristics as a prerequisite for e-participation and argues that social media literacy is indispensable for e-participation to be sustainable. Young people’s affinity spaces (Jenkins, et.al., 2006) can only lay down the foundations for social media literacy, but their further development depends on education. Political Education would be well advised to adapt innovative pedagogical approaches to the acquirement of new media literacy. This paper introduces an exemplary educational tool – predominately but not exclusively for political/civic education – namely the website PoliPedia.at. Teachers can use it to deliberately create a balanced space for collaboration between Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives. PoliPedia – as a participative online tool – has the potential to facilitate participation experience in political/civic education and supports social media education. Thereby the embedding of technology in pedagogical and societal conceptualizations is crucial.

Making visible the dance

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-403
Author(s):  
Julie Rust
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New Media ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
High School English ◽  
Content Type ◽  
English Classrooms ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Status ◽  
Opening Up

Purpose – This paper aims to delve deeply into the sometimes clashing interplays in English classrooms to explore the ways in which new media makes visible long-existing discourses and assumptions about the purpose of schools and the roles of teachers and students. Design/methodology/approach – This piece draws upon discourse analysis and utilizes the frame of strategies versus tactics (de Certeau, 1984) to trace the complex classroom interplays between a high school English teacher, a partnering researcher and a high school junior during the process of a month-long digital photography project. Findings – Data reveal that, at times, both teachers and students made moves to preserve the status quo of the school space (through strategies), and at other times, worked to reshape the space for more relevant purposes (through tactics.) Strategies that emerge from teacher moves include the formalization of requirements and the controlling of bodies; the student strategy described is the perpetuation of stereotypes. Teacher tactics reported include repositioning identities, reframing “the work” and opening up space for inquiry. Student tactics include resistance, shifting to the personal, subverting a given task and self-positioning. The author argues that generative potential exists at the intersection of teacher tactics and student tactics, and calls for furthering the co-construction of classroom spaces. Originality/value – By zooming in on the process, rather than the product, that ensued as the focal student created and defended her photographs representing school as jail, this paper emphasizes the agency that both teachers and students can enact in sometimes limiting classroom spaces.

Action research to support the integration of social media in the classroom

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-151
Author(s):  
Gail Casey ◽  
Terry Evans
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Young People ◽  
New Media ◽  
Electronic Device ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Participatory Media ◽  
The Face

This article discusses and reflects on the action research process used during an investigation in which social and participatory media were integrated into the face-to-face classroom. The action research project concerned pedagogical and curricular changes created, negotiated, reflected upon and documented as new media were incorporated into 13 classes, over an 18-month period, in an Australian public high school. The action research process and its continual cycles of improvement were used to redesign projects that incorporated new media within a contemporary pedagogical approach to schooling young people. The article discusses the change in thinking and mindset for the teacher that came about from this new learning milieu and was undertaken with a view to meet the school demands of a one electronic device per student program. This study supports educators and learning designers in developing curriculum and pedagogy that is more in line with the demands and skills of young people using social and participatory media to engage, interpret and understand their social worlds.

Using user-generated content data to analyze tourist mobility between hotels and attractions in cities

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 826-840
Author(s):  
Cheng Jin ◽  
Jing Xu
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Web Service ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Network Data ◽  
Mobility Models ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Power Law Distribution ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Opening Up

Attractions and hotels are the two most important elements in tourism activities. However, there is a lack of in-depth analysis of tourist mobility between hotels and attractions. Meanwhile, new means of data collection are opening up opportunities for disclosing the mobility patterns between hotels and attractions. This paper aims at analyzing the network structures and mobility models of tourist mobility from attractions to hotels (TMAH) and tourist mobility from hotels to attractions (TMHA), by using the user-generated content data collated from an open tourism web service. Then the differences between the two tourist mobilities are compared. Through the empirical study of Nanjing, it is found that the influence of distance on the two mobilities is different. The distance has a significant influence on TMAH, and the mobility conforms to the power law distribution. TMHA is more influenced by the ranks of hotels and attractions, and the mobility confirms to the gravity model. The highlight of this paper is to use the new network data to reveal the network structure and mobility laws of the special tourist mobility between hotels and attractions from the perspective of difference comparison.

scholarly journals Opening Up Technologies to the Social: Between Interdisciplinarity and Citizen Participation

Design Issues ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Nascimento ◽  
Alexandre Pólvora
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Opening Up
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